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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Blessing Faith Gratitude Holy Life
Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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Bridge Broken City Heart Mend Prayer Rebuild Ruined
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
Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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Action Attention Celebration Confrontation Giving Transcendent
The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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Character Fashion Follow Man Memories Memory Rich Soul Stored Test
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
To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Become Company Ineffable Part Word
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
We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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Air Spring Sunday
Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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Alert Greed Heart Jealousy Man Relishing Stillness
We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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Fool Spirit Tool Tragedy Vessel Word
Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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Deception Mundas People Vanity Vault World
The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Destination Lead Road Sacred Secular Work
Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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Accustomed Being Beyond Expression Itself Point Space Taken 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 Passing Rush Sense Simple Stillness Ultimate
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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Completly Crisis Discipline Faith Habit Replaced Worship

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