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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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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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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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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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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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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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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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