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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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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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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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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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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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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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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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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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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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