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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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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 awe of God is wisdom.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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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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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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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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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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