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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.

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 begins where our power ends.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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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.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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