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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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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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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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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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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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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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