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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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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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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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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.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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