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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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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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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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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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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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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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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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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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