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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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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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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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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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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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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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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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