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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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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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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 utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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