The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIn any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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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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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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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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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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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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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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