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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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 is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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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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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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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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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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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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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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