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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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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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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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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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To be is to stand for.
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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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All action is vicarious faith.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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