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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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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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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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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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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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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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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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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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