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In 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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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 mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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Created God Self Trust Word
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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To be is to stand for.
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Be Nature Positive Power Raise Stand To Voice
The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Blessing Faith Gratitude Holy Life
The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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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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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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