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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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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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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.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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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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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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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.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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