Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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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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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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