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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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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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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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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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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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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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We worship God through our questions.
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