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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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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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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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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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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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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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