Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThat 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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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 hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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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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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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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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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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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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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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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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