By the word of God the world was created.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSelf-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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A soul can create only when alone.
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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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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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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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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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