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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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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.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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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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To be is to stand for.
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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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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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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.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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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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