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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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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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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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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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