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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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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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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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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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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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