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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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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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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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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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