Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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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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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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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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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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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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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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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