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Prayer begins where our power ends.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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We worship God through our questions.
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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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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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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 has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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