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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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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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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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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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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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