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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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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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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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