The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIn any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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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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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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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
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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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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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