Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELfeel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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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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The awe of God is wisdom.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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