What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThere are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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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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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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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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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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