The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPrayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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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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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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All action is vicarious faith.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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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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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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