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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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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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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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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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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Disaster Earthquake Excellent God Good Nice Uncle

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