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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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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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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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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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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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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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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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