To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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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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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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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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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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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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