The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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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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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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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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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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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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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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