The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELBut the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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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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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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