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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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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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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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