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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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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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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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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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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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