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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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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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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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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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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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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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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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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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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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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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