It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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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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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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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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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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