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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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