Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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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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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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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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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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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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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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