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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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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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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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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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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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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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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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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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