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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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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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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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