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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Completly Crisis Discipline Faith Habit Replaced Worship
The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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We worship God through our questions.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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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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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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