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"The gods are on the side of the stronger," according to Tacitus. The prophets proclaimed that the heart of God is on the side of the weaker. God's special concern is not for the mighty and the successful, but for the lowly and the downtrodden, for the stranger and the poor, for the widow and the orphan.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel The Prophets (1962)

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Faith is not belief, an assent to a proposition, faith is attachment to the meaning beyond the mystery.

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Love of ultimate meaning is not self-centered but rather a concern to transcend the self.

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We manipulate what is available on the surface of the world; we must also stand in awe before the mystery of the world.

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My power of probing is easily exhausted, my words fade, but what I sense is not emptiness but inexhaustible abundance, ineffable abundance.

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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.

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