You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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We worship God through our questions.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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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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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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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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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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