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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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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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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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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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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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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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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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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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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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