Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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We worship God through our questions.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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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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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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