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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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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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A soul can create only when alone.
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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To be is to stand for.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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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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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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