Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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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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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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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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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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