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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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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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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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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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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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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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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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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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