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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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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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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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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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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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