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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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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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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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We worship God through our questions.
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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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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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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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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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