Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELOur concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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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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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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