Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSometimes 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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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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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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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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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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;
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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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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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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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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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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