Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSelf-respect is the root of discipline
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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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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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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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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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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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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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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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Every little deed counts.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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