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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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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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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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