Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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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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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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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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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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To be is to stand for.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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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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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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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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