Prayer begins where our power ends.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPrayer begins where our power ends.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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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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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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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 is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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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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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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Every little deed counts.
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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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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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