A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIndeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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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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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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