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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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Church God Greater Seem Separation State
The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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Chant Man Praise Prayer Primary Purpose Request Sin Song
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
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Blessing Faith Gratitude Holy Life
Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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Beyond End Itself Life Meaningful Serving Someone Unless Value
Life without commitment is not worth living.
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Commitment Decision Living Love Risk Worth
What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Category Higher Maintaining Power
Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Corrupt Forgery Happiness Magnifies Rude Selfish
What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Analysis Aware Awe Comprehend
For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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Affecting Deriving Exploiting Living World
We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Care Human Justice Relating Transcendent
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
The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Answer New Query Question Rise
Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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Audacious Burning Daring Longing Song Thought
Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Appreciation Information Mankind Perish Want
I am commanded therefore I am.
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Commanded Feeling Proud Self Therefore

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