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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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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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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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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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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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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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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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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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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.
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