A soul can create only when alone.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL
It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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A soul can create only when alone.
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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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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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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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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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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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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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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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We worship God through our questions.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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