Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo 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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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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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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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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To be is to stand for.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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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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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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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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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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