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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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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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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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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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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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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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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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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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