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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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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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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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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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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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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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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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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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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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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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