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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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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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 road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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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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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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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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All action is vicarious faith.
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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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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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