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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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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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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Every little deed counts.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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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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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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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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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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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.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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