There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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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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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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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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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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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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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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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