To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAwe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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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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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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