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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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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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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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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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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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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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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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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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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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