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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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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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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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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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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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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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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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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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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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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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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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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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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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Cry Remain Silence Sometimes Tell Unbroken Wish
Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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