Self-respect is the root of discipline
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMan 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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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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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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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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To be is to stand for.
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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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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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