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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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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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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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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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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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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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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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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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