Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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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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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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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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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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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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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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