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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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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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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 cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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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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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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Explain Option Self Sufficiency Wonder
Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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