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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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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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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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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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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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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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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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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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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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