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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSelf-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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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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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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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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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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