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• Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong. However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man's perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency; 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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  Motivation, Fall, Men

  "Who Is Man?". Book by Abraham Joshua Heschel, 1965.

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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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  Religion, Tragedy, Isolation

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• It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.

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  Essence, Done, Rewards

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism”, p.374, Macmillan

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• to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words...the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language. the world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable. 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. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.

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  Lying, Heart, Curves

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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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  Teacher, Art, Teaching

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1973). “A Passion for Truth”, p.169, Macmillan

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• Prayer is not a stratagem for occasional use, a refuge to resort to now and then. It is rather like an established residence for the innermost self. All things have a home: the bird has a nest, the fox has a hole, the bee has a hive. A soul without prayer is a soul without a home.

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  Prayer, Home, Self

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.258, Macmillan

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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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  Spiritual, Decay, Failing

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (2005). “The Sabbath”, p.18, Macmillan

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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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  Ideas, Talent, Capacity

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.227, Macmillan

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• Life without commitment is not worth living.

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  Love, Commitment, Worth Living

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in search of man: a philosophy of Judaism”

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• God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

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  Light, Self, Darkness

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion”, p.75, Macmillan

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• Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.

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  Wonder, Fame, Asks

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• Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.

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  Creativity, Dark, Night

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1973). “A Passion for Truth”, p.259, Macmillan

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• We worship God through our questions.

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  Worship, Worship God

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• The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.

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  Rejection, Arrogance, Worship

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism”, p.20, Macmillan

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• There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.

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  Gains, Misery, Labor

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (2005). “The Sabbath”, p.15, Macmillan

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• In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn...to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.

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  Faith, Night, Challenges

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• To be spiritual is to be amazed.

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  Spiritual, Amazed

  "Why is spirituality correlated with life satisfaction?" by Daniel José Camacho, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2017.

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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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  Men, Essence, Able

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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, Doe, World

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• The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God

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  Moments, Existence, Presence Of God

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• The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

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  Spiritual, Audacity, Moral

  Telegram to President John F. Kennedy, June 16, 1963.

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• The awe of God is wisdom.

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  Awe

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• Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.

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  Heart, Wish, World

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion”, p.16, Macmillan

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• Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.

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  Wise, Self, Criticism

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism”, p.17, Macmillan

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• Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men. Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person's qualities but on trust. 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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  Loyalty, Heart, Men

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.339, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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