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
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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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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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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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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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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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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