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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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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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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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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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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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