In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThere is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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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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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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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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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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