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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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Abraham Joshua Heschel
Age: 65 †
Born: 1907
Born: January 11
Died: 1972
Died: December 23
Judaic Scholar
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Warszawa
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. ... The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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I did not ask for success I asked for wonder.
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We worship God through our questions.
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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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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.
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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. The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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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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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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