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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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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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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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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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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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