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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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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
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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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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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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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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