We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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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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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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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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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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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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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 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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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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