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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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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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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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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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Capacity Idea Surprise Surprised Talent Tremendously
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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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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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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Darkness Entombed First God Hopelessness Light Peer Strangled
We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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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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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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