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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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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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To be is to stand for.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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We worship God through our questions.
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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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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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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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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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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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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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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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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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When 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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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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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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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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