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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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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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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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