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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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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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All action is vicarious faith.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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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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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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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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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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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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