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 HESCHELFriendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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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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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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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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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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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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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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