Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWhen we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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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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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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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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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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