The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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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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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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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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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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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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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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