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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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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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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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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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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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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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