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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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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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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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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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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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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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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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