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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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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.
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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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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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