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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThere is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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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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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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To be is to stand for.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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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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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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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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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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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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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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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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