The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSelf-respect is the root of discipline
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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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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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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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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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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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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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