Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELJudaism 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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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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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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I am commanded therefore I am.
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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 a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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