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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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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 at the edge of emptiness.
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Every little deed counts.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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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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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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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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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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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.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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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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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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