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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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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.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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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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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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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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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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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?
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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