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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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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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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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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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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’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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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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The awe of God is wisdom.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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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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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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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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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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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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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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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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