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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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To be is to stand for.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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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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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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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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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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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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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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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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