Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTime 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.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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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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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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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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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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