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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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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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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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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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