Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMuch of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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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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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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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.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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To be is to stand for.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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