There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPrayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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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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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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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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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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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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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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All action is vicarious faith.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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