Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELfeel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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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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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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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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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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