Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELRacism 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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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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Every little deed counts.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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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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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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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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