Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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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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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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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Normal 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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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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