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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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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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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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To be is to stand for.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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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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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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