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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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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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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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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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