Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELHowever, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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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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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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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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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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A soul can create only when alone.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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