Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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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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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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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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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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