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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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Critical Experiment Initiate Knowledge People Qualities Risk
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
There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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Answer Awareness Built Consciousness Gratitude Indebtedness Man Owning Sense
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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Dangerous Freedom Human Obligation Prerogative Regard
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Blessing Faith Gratitude Holy Life
Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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Cheating Country Crime Delinquency Dismay Israel People Prophet
Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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Affording Evil Indifference Justification Silent Society
Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Calm Discipline Mindset Positive Respect Root Self Vibe
At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Compassion Other Passion Strength Suffer Time
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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Chant Man Praise Prayer Primary Purpose Request Sin Song
Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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Apprehend Depth Intuition Love Probe Religion Rigor
The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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Love Rascal Relate Saint Scholar Test
The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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Character Fashion Follow Man Memories Memory Rich Soul Stored Test
We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Care Human Justice Relating Transcendent
The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Anyone Doe Know Man Suffered Suggest
The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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Amass Face Goal Healing Higher Moment Scared Spiritual Wealth

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