For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSelf-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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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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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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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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