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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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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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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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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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To be is to stand for.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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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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