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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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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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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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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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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.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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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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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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