Self-respect is the root of discipline
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAll action is vicarious faith.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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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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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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