Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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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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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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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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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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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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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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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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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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