Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThere is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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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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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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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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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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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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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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