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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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Appreciation Man Manipulation Primary Relate Surround Two Use
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Audacious Burning Clinging Faith Heart Pilgrimage Shrine Song Waiting
A soul can create only when alone.
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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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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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We worship God through our questions.
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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
Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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Approach Awareness Repair Reverence Spirit Unless Word
Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Awareness Begin Divine Hard Work Trust Wonder
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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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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