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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

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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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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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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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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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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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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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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.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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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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