Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIs not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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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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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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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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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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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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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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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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A soul can create only when alone.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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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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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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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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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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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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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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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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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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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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