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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Category Higher Maintaining Power
It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Empty Enter Live Perishing Waiting
People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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Commanded Feeling Proud Self Therefore
The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Dimension Essential Existence Expediency Men Refuted Reign Supremacy Time
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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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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Attitude Existing Information Prior Soul
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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Agree Consciousness Knowing Man Normal Real Responsiveness Sensibility State Stupor Wholly
Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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Control Giving Goal Own Realm Share Space Time
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
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

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