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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Appreciation Die Information Mankind
When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Authority Compassion Message Name Religion Speak Voice
Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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Beginning Common Enable Infinite Simple Small World
To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Amazed Environment Nature Spiritual
Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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Activities Affair Commitment Impersonal Institutional Loyalty Religion Religious
The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Destination Lead Road Sacred Secular Work
Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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Conceive God Most Reality Substance Thing Thinghood
What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Analysis Aware Awe Comprehend
What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Category Higher Maintaining Power
It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Amazed Beginning Fact Wisdom
Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Age Animal Attainment Chief Man Merit Nature Power Taken Usefulness
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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Broken Existed Our Prayer Sensitivity Symptom Today World
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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Deathblow Episode Health Injurious Injustice Prophets Welfare
God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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Air Compassion Everywhere Father God Noble People Sentiment
The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Dimension Essential Existence Expediency Men Refuted Reign Supremacy Time
When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Empire King Kingdom Leg Marched People Prayer Praying Rule Selma World

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