To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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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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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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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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A soul can create only when alone.
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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