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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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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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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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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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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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To be is to stand for.
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