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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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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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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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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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