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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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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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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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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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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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Begin Done Insight Look Man Satisfaction
I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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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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