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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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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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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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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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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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Every little deed counts.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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