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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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By the word of God the world was created.
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Created God Self Trust Word
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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Art Live Pray Prayer Specialized Training
The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Destination Lead Road Sacred Secular Work
Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Everytime Forgot Loss Man Memory Message Messenger
Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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Agree Consciousness Knowing Man Normal Real Responsiveness Sensibility State Stupor Wholly
Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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Cheating Country Crime Delinquency Dismay Israel People Prophet
The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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Contempt Far Kingdom Man Peril Plain Retain Share Task War
We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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Air Spring Sunday
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Admired Bullying Clever Kind Kindness Old People Young
The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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Chant Man Praise Prayer Primary Purpose Request Sin Song
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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Compassion Completely Creed Habit Ignored Name Past Replaced Today
The awe of God is wisdom.
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Awe Destiny Future God Good Luck Rule Wisdom
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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Entirely Law Negative Regard Reject
Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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Alien Energy Imposed Law Longer Particular Principle Revolt Society
The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Competition Face Moment Result Sacred Task
Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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Compassion Glory Humankind Power Presence Will
Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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Analysis Dignity Intuition Realization Simple Stand
God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Either God Importance Important Supreme
There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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Answer Awareness Built Consciousness Gratitude Indebtedness Man Owning Sense
Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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Depend Fulfillment Man Surprise True
Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Bible Compromise Demand Imperative Memory Remember
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Clinging Endless Faith Heart Shrine
We worship God through our questions.
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Blessing Divine God Importance Need Question Spiritual Worship
When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Experience Pray Praying World
Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Deeds Speech End Fade Power Sound State
Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Concern Evil Human Being Limit Morally Suffering
A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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Ability God Greatness Hold Man Prophet Thought

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