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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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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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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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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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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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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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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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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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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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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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