New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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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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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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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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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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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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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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