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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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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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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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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.
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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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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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