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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAcceptance 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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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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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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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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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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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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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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