Self-respect is the root of discipline
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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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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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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