How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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All action is vicarious faith.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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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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