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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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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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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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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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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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We worship God through our questions.
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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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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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