The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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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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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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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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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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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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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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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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