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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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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.
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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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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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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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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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