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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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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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Aeons Contain Idea Power Sabbath Shining Spiritual World
What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Analysis Aware Awe Comprehend
To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Amazed Environment Nature Spiritual
Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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Gravest Hatred Man Minimum Racism Reason Threat
To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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Mean Real Voice
We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Care Human Justice Relating Transcendent
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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Fool Spirit Tool Tragedy Vessel Word
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Ability Inspirational Life Motivational Oneself Respect Self Sense
The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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Degree Humanity Index One People Sensitive Suffering
Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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Earth Failure Forget God Man Master Servant Sin
Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Corrupt Forgery Happiness Magnifies Rude Selfish
There 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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Endlessly Exclusive Given Hour Moment Two Unique Years
Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Everytime Forgot Loss Man Memory Message Messenger
feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Feel Feels Eternal Passing Rush Stillness
Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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Apprehend Depth Intuition Love Probe Religion Rigor
God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Disaster Earthquake Excellent God Good Nice Uncle
To be is to stand for.
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Be Nature Positive Power Raise Stand To Voice
Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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Dimension Essential Immutable Majesty Supreme Time
The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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Character Fashion Follow Man Memories Memory Rich Soul Stored Test
Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Appreciation Die Information Mankind
Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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Deception Mundas People Vanity Vault World
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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Approach Awareness Repair Reverence Spirit Unless Word
It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Empty Enter Live Perishing Waiting
By the word of God the world was created.
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Created God Self Trust Word
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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Age Animal Attainment Chief Man Merit Nature Power Taken Usefulness
Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Decay Eternal Failing Grandeur Spiritual Time
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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Audacious Burning Daring Longing Song Thought

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