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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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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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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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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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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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