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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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However, 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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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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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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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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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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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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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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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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