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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Aeons Contain Idea Power Sabbath Shining Spiritual World
We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Darkness Entombed First God Hopelessness Light Peer Strangled
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Ability Inspirational Life Motivational Oneself Respect Self Sense
God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Disaster Earthquake Excellent God Good Nice Uncle
At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Compassion Other Passion Strength Suffer Time
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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Alien Energy Imposed Law Longer Particular Principle Revolt Society
Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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Beginning Common Enable Infinite Simple Small World
Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Cure Hysteria Incursion Necessary Period Recovery Solitude
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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Day Interlude Passion Sabbath Sake Week Weekday
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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Dangerous Freedom Human Obligation Prerogative Regard
God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Air Compassion Everywhere Father God Noble People Sentiment
Prayer begins where our power ends.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Dedicate Dedication End Power Prayer Soul True Will Worship
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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Compassion Glory Humankind Power Presence Will
All action is vicarious faith.
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Action Believe Faith Hope Vicarious
People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Amused Appreciation Entertainment Giving People Seek
To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Become Company Ineffable Part Word

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