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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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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Asking Closer God Question Thinking
Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Begin Desire Edge Emptiness Hope Mindfulness Prayer
The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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Chant Man Praise Prayer Primary Purpose Request Sin Song
Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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Acquisition Amazed Control Life Space Wrong
It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Beyond Exist Force Mind Physical Quality
The awe of God is wisdom.
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Awe Destiny Future God Good Luck Rule Wisdom
Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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Activities Affair Commitment Impersonal Institutional Loyalty Religion Religious
This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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Adventure Experience Fun Goal Jewish Spiritual Way
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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Discipline Fruit Inspirational Life Respect Warrior
God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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Assumption Darkness Evident God Hypothesis Immediate Insight Light Self
All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Horrified Horror Left Loss Sense
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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Degree Humanity Index One People Sensitive Suffering
Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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Explain Option Self Sufficiency Wonder
Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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Encounter Narcissistic Originate Power Self Self Indulgent Thinking Ultimately
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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Animal Box Indeed Man Primarily Satisfaction Tool
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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Cheating Country Crime Delinquency Dismay Israel People Prophet
We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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Air Spring Sunday
You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Art Build Dream Hard Work Life Motivate Success Work
A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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Ability God Greatness Hold Man Prophet Thought
Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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Ask Done Essence Fame Good Reward Sake Virtue Wonder
It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Empty Enter Live Perishing Waiting
All action is vicarious faith.
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Action Believe Faith Hope Vicarious
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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Accommodate Act Everywhere Evil Look Myself
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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Cure Hysteria Incursion Necessary Period Recovery Solitude
We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Audacity Forfeit God Hour Humiliate Long Moral Negroes Right Spiritual
God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Disaster Earthquake Excellent God Good Nice Uncle
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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Awe Everything Mystery Reference Sense Transcendence

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