Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL
Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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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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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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