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Abraham Joshua Heschel

"When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people."

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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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"God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light."
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