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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More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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To be is to stand for.
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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.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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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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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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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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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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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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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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