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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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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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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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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 opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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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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Horrified Horror Left Loss Sense
Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Bible Compromise Demand Imperative Memory Remember
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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Behave Children Dictators Easy People Recovery Tyrants
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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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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Create Creativity Dark Death Majority Night Soul
To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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