Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

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Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

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Man can live far from God -- not outside God. God is wherever we are. Even in suffering? Even in suffering.

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I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

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There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

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No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

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Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.

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Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

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We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

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Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

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