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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 forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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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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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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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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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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