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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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 opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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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.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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