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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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A soul can create only when alone.
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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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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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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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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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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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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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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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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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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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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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