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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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Dependance Explanation Idea Nonanalogous Self Sufficiency Term Unprecedented
To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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Amazement Anything Beyond Final Radical Reality Refusing Way Wonder
For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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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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Animal Box Indeed Man Primarily Satisfaction Tool
Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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Attitude Existing Information Prior Soul
In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Bible Compromise Demand Imperative Memory Remember
The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Answer New Query Question Rise
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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