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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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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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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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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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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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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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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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