Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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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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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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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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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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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 answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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