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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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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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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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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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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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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 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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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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