Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThere are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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Every little deed counts.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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By the word of God the world was created.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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