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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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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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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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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Appreciation Die Information Mankind
To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Completly Crisis Discipline Faith Habit Replaced Worship
The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Competition Face Moment Result Sacred Task
Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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Care Concern Essence Existence Human Justice Perplexity Solved Transcend
I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Ask Mindset Motivation Positive Success Wonder
In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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Managed Object Put Second Surround Use Way
All action is vicarious faith.
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Action Believe Faith Hope Vicarious
The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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Combine Faced Loyalty Religious Tolerance Tradition
Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Heart heavy Sometimes Speak Wish Wonder

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