Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAnd yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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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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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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