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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWorship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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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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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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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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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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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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