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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Appreciation Information Mankind Perish Want
When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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Accommodate Act Everywhere Evil Look Myself
That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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Equation Existence Man Own Self Thinking Transcend Trap
In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Free Guilty Responsible Society Terrible
Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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Animal Box Indeed Man Primarily Satisfaction Tool
Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Deed Divine Extol Pagan Prophets Sacred Thing
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 Gardener Lord Mankind May Plant Sacred Secret Upland
In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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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
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Degree Humanity Index One People Sensitive Suffering
When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Completly Crisis Discipline Faith Habit Replaced Worship
All action is vicarious faith.
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Action Believe Faith Hope Vicarious
to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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Aware Company Curve Experience Heart Human Ineffable Lying Word
However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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Axiom Convert Operate Outside Perception

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