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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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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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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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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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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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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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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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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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