Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe 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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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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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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Every little deed counts.
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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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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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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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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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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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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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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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