We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSelf-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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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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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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