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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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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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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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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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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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
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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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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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