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All action is vicarious faith.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Attain Fulfillment Human Human Being People Pertain Shared
What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Category Higher Maintaining Power
In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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Managed Object Put Second Surround Use Way
The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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Beginning Happiness Life Living Lying Understanding Wonder
How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Earth Embracing Greatest Man Miracle Understand
When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Authority Compassion Message Name Religion Speak Voice
Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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Earth Failure Forget God Man Master Servant Sin
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
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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Callousness Hatred Meaningless Overthrow Prayer Pyramid Ruin Seek Subversive Unless
When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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Compassion Completely Creed Habit Ignored Name Past Replaced Today
It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Empty Enter Live Perishing Waiting
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Clinging Endless Faith Heart Shrine
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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Amazement Goal Life Look Morning Spiritual World
Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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Depend Fulfillment Man Surprise True
To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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Challenge Completely Easy Enjoy Enjoyment Integrity Life Retain Spiritual
The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Destination Lead Road Sacred Secular Work
It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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Called Creation Day Eternal Mystery Result Shared Time
Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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Action Attention Celebration Confrontation Giving Transcendent
I am commanded therefore I am.
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Commanded Feeling Proud Self Therefore
Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Almost Entrance Faith Front God Heart Holy Open Thinking
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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Common Eternal Feel Passing Rush Stillness Ultimate
In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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Certain Challenge Continue Darkest Dawam Faith Goodness Night
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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Encouragement God Love Man Person Religious Suffer Time
Prayer begins where our power ends.
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Dedicate Dedication End Power Prayer Soul True Will Worship
Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Appreciation Die Information Mankind
Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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Care Concern Essence Existence Human Justice Perplexity Solved Transcend
In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Center Consciousness Living Prayer Self Shift Surrender

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