Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPrayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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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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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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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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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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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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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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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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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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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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