The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAcceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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And 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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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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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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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.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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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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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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