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The task of life is to face sacred moments.

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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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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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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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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Ability Inspirational Life Motivational Oneself Respect Self Sense
Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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Apart Being Human Capacity Independence Mode Resist Self Sufficiency
We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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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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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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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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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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Correlated Inspire Inspired Rest Sabbath Seventh Weekday
A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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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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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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