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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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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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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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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 true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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