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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.

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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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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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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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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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.
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