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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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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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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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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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