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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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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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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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Aeons Contain Idea Power Sabbath Shining Spiritual World
Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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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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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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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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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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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Deeds Speech End Fade Power Sound State
Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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Clear Common Loyal Man Presence Ultimate
To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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