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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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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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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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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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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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Every little deed counts.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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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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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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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 worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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