The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELfeel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Every little deed counts.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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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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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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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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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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