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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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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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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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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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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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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 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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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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