Self-respect is the root of discipline
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWhen 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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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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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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Every little deed counts.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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