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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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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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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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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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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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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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