Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELGod is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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To be is to stand for.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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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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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Every little deed counts.
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