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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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