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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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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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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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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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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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