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 HESCHELWe worship God through our questions.
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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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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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