Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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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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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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There 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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