Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELfeel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Acceptance 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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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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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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