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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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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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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Appreciation Information Mankind Perish Want
It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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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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We worship God through our questions.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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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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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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