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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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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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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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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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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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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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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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