Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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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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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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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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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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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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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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