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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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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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Different Hub Pray Prayer Self Setting Step World
Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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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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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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Concern Evil Human Being Limit Morally Suffering
The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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Anger Buddhist Ceased Changing Controversy Life Striving Truth
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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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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Animate Being Divine Margin Mystery Notice Praying Sense Wonder
We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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Explain Option Self Sufficiency Wonder
God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Disaster Earthquake Excellent God Good Nice Uncle
In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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Applauding Bible Civilization Complacency Emotion Knives Positive Quote Slashing Voice
Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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Callousness Hatred Meaningless Overthrow Prayer Pyramid Ruin Seek Subversive Unless

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