“ Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. ”
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“ When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people. ”
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“ Selfrespect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. ”
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“ Modern man may be characterized as a being who is callous to catastrophes. A victim of enforced brutalization, his sensibility is being increasingly reduced; his sense of honor is on the wane. The distinction between right and wrong is becoming blurred. All that is left to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of honor. ”
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“ All we own is a passing intention, but what comes about will outlive and surpass our power. ”
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“ Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. ”
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“ The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song. Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved. ”
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“ A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. ”
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“ Modern man may be characterized as a being who is callous to catastrophes. A victim of enforced brutalization, his sensibility is being increasingly reduced; his sense of honor is on the wane. The distinction between right and wrong is becoming blurred. All that is left to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of honor. ”
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“ All we own is a passing intention, but what comes about will outlive and surpass our power. ”
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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. 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 Search for reason ends at the known; on the immense expanse beyond it only the sense of the ineffable can glide. It alone knows the route to that which is remote from experience and understanding. Neither of them is amphibious: reason cannot go beyond the shore, and the sense of the ineffable is out of place where we measure, where we weigh. We do not leave the shore of the known in search of adventure or suspense or because of the failure of reason to answer our questions. We sail because our mind is like a fantastic seashell, and when applying our ear to its lips we hear a perpetual murmur from the waves beyond the shore. Citizens of two realms, we all must sustain a dual allegiance: we sense the ineffable in one realm, we name and exploit reality in another. Between the two we set up a system of references, but we can never fill the gap. They are as far and as close to each other as time and calendar, as violin and melody, as life and what lies beyond the last breath. ”
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“ The course of life is unpredictable... no one can write his autobiography in advance. ”
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“ Piety is not a thinking about coming but a real approach. It is not identical with the performance of rites and ceremonies, but is rather the care and affection put into their performance, the personal touch therein, the offering of life. ”
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“ The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions. ”
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“ Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself. ”
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“ The focus of prayer is not the self… It is the momentary disregard of our personal concerns, the absence of self-centered thoughts, which constitute the art of prayer. Thus, in beseeching Him for bread, there is one instant, at least, in which our mind is directed neither to our hunger nor to food, but to His mercy… ”
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“ The course of life is unpredictable... no one can write his autobiography in advance. ”
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“ A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. ”
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“ The focus of prayer is not the self… It is the momentary disregard of our personal concerns, the absence of self-centered thoughts, which constitute the art of prayer. Thus, in beseeching Him for bread, there is one instant, at least, in which our mind is directed neither to our hunger nor to food, but to His mercy… ”
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“ A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. ”
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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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“ A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. ”
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“ Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotlely, for something supreme. ”
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“ A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture. ”
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“ A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture. ”
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“ A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair. ”
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“ The focus of prayer is not the self… It is the momentary disregard of our personal concerns, the absence of self-centered thoughts, which constitute the art of prayer. Thus, in beseeching Him for bread, there is one instant, at least, in which our mind is directed neither to our hunger nor to food, but to His mercy… ”
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