The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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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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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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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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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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