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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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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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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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All action is vicarious faith.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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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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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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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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