Heschel

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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 no harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair." ... "Self-respect is the fruit of discipline, the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself." ... "In regard to cruelties committed in the name of a free society, some are guilty, while all are responsible." ... "Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy." ... "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."

[Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel]