The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSelf-respect is the root of discipline
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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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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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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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.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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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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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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