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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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By the word of God the world was created.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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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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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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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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I am commanded therefore I am.
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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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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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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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