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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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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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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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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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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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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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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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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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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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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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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.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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