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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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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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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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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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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 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.
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Deathblow Episode Health Injurious Injustice Prophets Welfare
Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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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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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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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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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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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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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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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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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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