It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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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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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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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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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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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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