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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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Earth Failure Forget God Man Master Servant Sin
The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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Combine Faced Loyalty Religious Tolerance Tradition
Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Common Few Forgive Guilty Mistake People Responsible
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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Animate Being Divine Margin Mystery Notice Praying Sense Wonder
Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Answer Humble Inconceivable Living Prayer Surprise
It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Empty Enter Live Perishing Waiting
All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Horrified Horror Left Loss Sense
The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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Day Interlude Passion Sabbath Sake Week Weekday
It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Beyond Exist Force Mind Physical Quality
There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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Answer Awareness Built Consciousness Gratitude Indebtedness Man Owning Sense
Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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Faith Gardener Lord Mankind May Plant Sacred Secret Upland
Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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Apprehend Depth Intuition Love Probe Religion Rigor
To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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Mean Real Voice
The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Anyone Doe Know Man Suffered Suggest
A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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Ability God Greatness Hold Man Prophet Thought
Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Appreciation Information Mankind Perish Want

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