You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPrayer 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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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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We worship God through our questions.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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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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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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To be is to stand for.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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Every little deed counts.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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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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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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