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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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Create Creativity Dark Death Majority Night Soul
feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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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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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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