You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo 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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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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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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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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