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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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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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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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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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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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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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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

Concern Evil Human Being Limit Morally Suffering
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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