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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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Divine Power Prayer Save Saved Worthy
Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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Awe Crevice Dear Grace Lord Man Number Surprise Universe
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Ability Inspirational Life Motivational Oneself Respect Self Sense
Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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Care Faith Inner Open Solicitude Wonder
In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Center Consciousness Living Prayer Self Shift Surrender
The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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Arrogance Betray Cowardice Follow Intelligence Rejection Worship
Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Amazed Casually Incredible Phenomenal Spiritual Treat
The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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Ability Faith God Issue Play Pray Prayer Unless
Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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Deception Mundas People Vanity Vault World
It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Empty Enter Live Perishing Waiting
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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Experiment Friendship Mentality Puzzle Syllogistic
We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Care Human Justice Relating Transcendent
To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Amazed Environment Nature Spiritual
To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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Business Cheating Disaster Exploitation Injustice Poor Single
I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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Cease Evil Individual Morning Sunshine
In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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Appreciation First Manipulation Surround Way
By the word of God the world was created.
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Created God Self Trust Word
Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Bible Compromise Demand Imperative Memory Remember
To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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God History Jungle Radiance Ray Sense
The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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Chief Creation God Purpose Resouces Utilization
People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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Amused Appreciation Entertainment Giving People Seek
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Admired Bullying Clever Kind Kindness Old People Young
He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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Craved Ease God Light Neglect Peril Satisfied Spite Truly
Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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Gravest Hatred Man Minimum Racism Reason Threat
When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Completly Crisis Discipline Faith Habit Replaced Worship
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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Cheating Country Crime Delinquency Dismay Israel People Prophet
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

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