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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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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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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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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 issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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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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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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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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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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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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