The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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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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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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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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