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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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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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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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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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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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