Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThere are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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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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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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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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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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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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