Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThere 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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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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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-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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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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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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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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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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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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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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