Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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To be is to stand for.
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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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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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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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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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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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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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