The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPhilosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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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 worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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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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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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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 opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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