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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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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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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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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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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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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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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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