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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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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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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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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 supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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