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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

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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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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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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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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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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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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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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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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