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The 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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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 supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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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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To be is to stand for.
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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Always Control Criticism Inner Listen Self Voice Wise
Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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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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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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