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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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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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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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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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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 be spiritual is to be amazed.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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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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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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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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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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