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

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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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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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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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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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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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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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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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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