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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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Expediency Fall Man Motivation Naturally Right Supreme
The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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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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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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Clear Common Loyal Man Presence Ultimate
Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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Divine Power Prayer Save Saved Worthy
God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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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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Church God Greater Seem Separation State
Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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