To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSpeech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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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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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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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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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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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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We worship God through our questions.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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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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