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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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