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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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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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By the word of God the world was created.
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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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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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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
There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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Conceive God Most Reality Substance Thing Thinghood
Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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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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