(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELHow embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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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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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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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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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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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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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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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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