The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIn any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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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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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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Every little deed counts.
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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.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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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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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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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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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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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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