We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSelf-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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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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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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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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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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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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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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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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