He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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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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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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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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By the word of God the world was created.
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Every little deed counts.
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