To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSelf-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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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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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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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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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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