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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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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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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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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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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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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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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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