God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIn any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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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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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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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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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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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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There is a realm of time where 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.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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