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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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To be is to stand for.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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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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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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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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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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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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