Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELHowever, 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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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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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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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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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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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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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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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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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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