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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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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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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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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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