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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

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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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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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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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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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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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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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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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
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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