To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELBy the word of God the world was created.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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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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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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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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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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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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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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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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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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