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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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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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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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We worship God through our questions.
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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.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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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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Every little deed counts.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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