Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSelf-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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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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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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