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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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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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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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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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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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To be is to stand for.
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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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