Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELA prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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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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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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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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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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