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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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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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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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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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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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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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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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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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