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

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of 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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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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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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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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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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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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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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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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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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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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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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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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