To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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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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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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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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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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