There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSelf-respect is the root of discipline
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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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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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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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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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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