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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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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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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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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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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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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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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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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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