Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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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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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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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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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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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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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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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