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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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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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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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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 meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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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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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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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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