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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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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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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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