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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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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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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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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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