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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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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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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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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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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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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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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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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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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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