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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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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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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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