In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELEven without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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 answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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