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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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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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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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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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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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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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