People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSelf-respect is the root of discipline
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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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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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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