Self-respect is the root of discipline

Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature. ✨ Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism, p.45 … ▶
Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you. ✨ Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Ju … ▶
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. God cannot be sensed as a second thou … ▶
When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than … ▶
Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God. ✨ Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). Insecurity of Freedom, p.157, Macmillan

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