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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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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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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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Every little deed counts.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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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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