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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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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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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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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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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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