It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIn our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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