Self-respect is the root of discipline
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Every little deed counts.
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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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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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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