Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWhat is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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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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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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