Self-respect is the root of discipline
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELOnly those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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And 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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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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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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All action is vicarious faith.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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