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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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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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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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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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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 meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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