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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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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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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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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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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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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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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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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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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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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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