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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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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Authority Compassion Message Name Religion Speak Voice
Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Everytime Forgot Loss Man Memory Message Messenger
Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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Amazement Attitude Faith History Nature Radical Religious
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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Fool Spirit Tool Tragedy Vessel Word
Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Amazed Casually Incredible Phenomenal Spiritual Treat
Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Absurdity Art Beyond Count Deed Meaning Power Remember
Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Almost Entrance Faith Front God Heart Holy Open Thinking
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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Broken Existed Our Prayer Sensitivity Symptom Today World
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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Answer Awareness Built Consciousness Gratitude Indebtedness Man Owning Sense
The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Anyone Doe Know Man Suffered Suggest
Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Amazed Everything Life Phenomenal
The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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Able Essence Hard Work Man Mindset Positive
The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Evil Good Indifference Opposite
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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Leg Lip March Montgomery Prayer Selma Song Walking
It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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Done Essence Good Prize Reward Sake Virtue
to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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Aware Company Curve Experience Heart Human Ineffable Lying Word
But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Affection Care Culture Gold Helpless Incurable Old
When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Experience Pray Praying World
To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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Deathblow Episode Health Injurious Injustice Prophets Welfare
What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Analysis Aware Awe Comprehend
Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Deeds Speech End Fade Power Sound State
Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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Art Defined Giving Outlive Philosophy Problem Question Right Solution
All action is vicarious faith.
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Action Believe Faith Hope Vicarious
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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Art Live Pray Prayer Specialized Training
Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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Encounter Narcissistic Originate Power Self Self Indulgent Thinking Ultimately
There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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Appreciation Man Manipulation Primary Relate Surround Two Use
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Audacious Burning Clinging Faith Heart Pilgrimage Shrine Song Waiting

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