The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELNormal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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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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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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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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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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