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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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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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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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