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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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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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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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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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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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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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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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