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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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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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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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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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The awe of God is wisdom.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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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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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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