Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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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.
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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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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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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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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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