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Every little deed counts.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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Degree Humanity Index One People Sensitive Suffering
Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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Accustomed Being Beyond Expression Itself Point Space Taken Thinking
We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Audacity Forfeit God Hour Humiliate Long Moral Negroes Right Spiritual
In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Center Consciousness Living Prayer Self Shift Surrender
To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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Doe Mean Serve Share Surrender
Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Faith Hard Work Job Religious Result Shaken Success
There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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Agony Answer Bear Blasphemy Commit Country Enable Holocaust State Supreme
To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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God History Jungle Radiance Ray Sense
All action is vicarious faith.
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Action Believe Faith Hope Vicarious
What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Category Higher Maintaining Power
We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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Church Deal God Great Problem Provoking Sometimes Worry
Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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Care Faith Inner Open Solicitude Wonder
The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Competition Face Moment Result Sacred Task
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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Aeons Contain Idea Power Sabbath Shining Spiritual World
God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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Air Compassion Everywhere Father God Noble People Sentiment
Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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Acceptance Appreciate Appreciation High Seem Value

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