We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWorship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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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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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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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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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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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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