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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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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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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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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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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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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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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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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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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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