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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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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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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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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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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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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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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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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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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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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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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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