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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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Created God Self Trust Word
Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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Action Attention Celebration Confrontation Giving Transcendent
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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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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Awe Everything Mystery Reference Sense Transcendence
When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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Anxious Financial Maturity Mean People Prepare Spiritual
The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Awareness Begin Divine Hard Work Trust Wonder
There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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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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Cease Evil Individual Morning Sunshine
Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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Answer Answering Ask Encompass Enough Know Querry Questions Want
We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Care Human Justice Relating Transcendent
When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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