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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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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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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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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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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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