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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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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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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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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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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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To be is to stand for.
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