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Self-respect is the root of discipline

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Advance Alarming Appreciation Civilization Mind State Symptom Wonder
There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Answer Awareness Built Consciousness Gratitude Indebtedness Man Owning Sense
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
But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Affection Care Culture Gold Helpless Incurable Old
Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Depend Fulfillment Man Surprise True
Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Amazed Casually Incredible Phenomenal Spiritual Treat
Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Action Attention Celebration Confrontation Giving Transcendent
This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Absurdity Amen Author Defiance Vocation
Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Conceive God Most Reality Substance Thing Thinghood
Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Apprehend Depth Intuition Love Probe Religion Rigor
Prayer begins where our power ends.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Dedicate Dedication End Power Prayer Soul True Will Worship
Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Gravest Hatred Man Minimum Racism Reason Threat
God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Either God Importance Important Supreme
God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Disaster Earthquake Excellent God Good Nice Uncle
Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Beginning Common Enable Infinite Simple Small World
Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Deeds Speech End Fade Power Sound State

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