To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELHowever, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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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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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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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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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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