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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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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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All action is vicarious faith.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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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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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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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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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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