He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSolitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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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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We worship God through our questions.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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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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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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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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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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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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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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