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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Center Function Hub Prayer Revolving Spoke Wheel
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 something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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Attitude Existing Information Prior Soul
All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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Beyond Comprehensive Event Horizon Relationship Sweep
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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Axiom Convert Operate Outside Perception
We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Agree Dawn Mock Scoff Sneer Star Totality
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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Appreciation First Manipulation Surround Way
What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Analysis Aware Awe Comprehend
The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Autobiography Course Future Life Unpredictable Writing
The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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Destroy Liturgical Movement Revolutionary Seeking
Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Faith Hard Work Job Religious Result Shaken Success
There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Agony Answer Bear Blasphemy Commit Country Enable Holocaust State Supreme
Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Alert Greed Heart Jealousy Man Relishing Stillness
Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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Aeon Cherished Cosmic Shread Tapestry Theory
By the word of God the world was created.
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Created God Self Trust Word
Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Bridge Broken City Heart Mend Prayer Rebuild Ruined

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