There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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Every little deed counts.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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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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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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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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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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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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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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