Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSelf-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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To be is to stand for.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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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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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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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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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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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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