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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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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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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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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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Equation Existence Man Own Self Thinking Transcend Trap
In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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Attend Eye Live Perceive Primarily Reality Sense Space Spelling
Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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Deception Mundas People Vanity Vault World
Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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Amazement Attitude Faith History Nature Radical Religious
Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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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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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Decay Eternal Failing Grandeur Spiritual Time
The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Competition Face Moment Result Sacred Task
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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