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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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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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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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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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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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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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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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All action is vicarious faith.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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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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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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