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Self-respect is the root of discipline

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Challenge Completely Easy Enjoy Enjoyment Integrity Life Retain Spiritual
When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Compassion Completely Creed Habit Ignored Name Past Replaced Today
To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Dream Envision God Holy League Pray Vision
It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Cry Remain Silence Sometimes Tell Unbroken Wish
There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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Control Giving Goal Own Realm Share Space Time
Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Art Defined Giving Outlive Philosophy Problem Question Right Solution
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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Create Creativity Dark Death Majority Night Soul
There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Agony Answer Bear Blasphemy Commit Country Enable Holocaust State Supreme
God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Assumption Darkness Evident God Hypothesis Immediate Insight Light Self
It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Critical Experiment Initiate Knowledge People Qualities Risk
The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Evil Good Indifference Opposite
Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Callousness Hatred Meaningless Overthrow Prayer Pyramid Ruin Seek Subversive Unless
At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Compassion Other Passion Strength Suffer Time
Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Answer Humble Inconceivable Living Prayer Surprise
The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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Day Interlude Passion Sabbath Sake Week Weekday
Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Always Control Criticism Inner Listen Self Voice Wise

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