Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPrayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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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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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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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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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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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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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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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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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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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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