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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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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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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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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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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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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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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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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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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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By the word of God the world was created.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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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 time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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