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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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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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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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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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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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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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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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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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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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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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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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