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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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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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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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Every little deed counts.
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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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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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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.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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