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Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes: Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
         

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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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty - all are responsible.



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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.



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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.



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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.



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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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