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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Ask Done Essence Fame Good Reward Sake Virtue Wonder
The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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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
All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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Beyond Comprehensive Event Horizon Relationship Sweep
God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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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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Conceive God Most Reality Substance Thing Thinghood
A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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Behave Children Dictators Easy People Recovery Tyrants
We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Asking Closer God Question Thinking

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