There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWhen faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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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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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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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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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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