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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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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 degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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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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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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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 world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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Maturity Retire Sudden Tranquility Wisdom
Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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