The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo 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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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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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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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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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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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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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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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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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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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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