The task of life is to face sacred moments.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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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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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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