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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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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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