Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELI did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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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 a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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