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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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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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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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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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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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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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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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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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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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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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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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