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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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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Appreciation Die Information Mankind
God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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Assumption Darkness Evident God Hypothesis Immediate Insight Light Self
Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Faith Hard Work Job Religious Result Shaken Success
But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Affection Care Culture Gold Helpless Incurable Old
We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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Air Spring Sunday
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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Axiom Convert Operate Outside Perception
Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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Maturity Retire Sudden Tranquility Wisdom
People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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Amused Appreciation Entertainment Giving People Seek
There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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Appreciation Man Manipulation Primary Relate Surround Two Use
Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Awareness Begin Divine Hard Work Trust Wonder
Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Always Control Criticism Inner Listen Self Voice Wise
Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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Cheating Country Crime Delinquency Dismay Israel People Prophet
Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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Encounter Narcissistic Originate Power Self Self Indulgent Thinking Ultimately
Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Bible Compromise Demand Imperative Memory Remember
When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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Accommodate Act Everywhere Evil Look Myself
Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Clear Common Loyal Man Presence Ultimate

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