Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIn prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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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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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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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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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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