I am always mesmerized by exceptional writing.  This paragraph from Abraham J. Heschel's great work, The Insecurity of Freedom, took my breath away.  His command of language inspires me!

"The prophets had disdain for those to whom God was comfort and security; to them God was a challenge, an incessant demand.  He is compassion, but not a compromise; justice, but not inclemency.  Tranquillity is unknown to the soul of a prophet.  The miseries of the world give him no rest.  While others are callous, and even callous to their callousness and unaware of their insensitivity, the prophets remain examples of supreme impatience with evil, distracted by neither might nor applause, by neither success nor beauty.  Their intense sensitivity to right and wrong is due to their intense sensitivity to God's concern for right and wrong.  They feel fiercely because they hear deeply."