To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSelf-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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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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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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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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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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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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Every little deed counts.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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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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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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