The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWhen I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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Every little deed counts.
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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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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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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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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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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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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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