To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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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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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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