Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELI 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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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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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.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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All action is vicarious faith.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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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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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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