We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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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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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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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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