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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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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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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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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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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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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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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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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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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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