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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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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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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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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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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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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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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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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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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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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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