Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSpeech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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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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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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