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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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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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