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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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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.
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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 opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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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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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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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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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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