Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThose 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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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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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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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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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 higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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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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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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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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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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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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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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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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