When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAnd 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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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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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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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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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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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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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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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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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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