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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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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 use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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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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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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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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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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Every little deed counts.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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