A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELInstead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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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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All action is vicarious faith.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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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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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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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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