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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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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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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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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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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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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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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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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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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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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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