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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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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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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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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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