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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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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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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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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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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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