In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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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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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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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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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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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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