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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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Dependance Explanation Idea Nonanalogous Self Sufficiency Term Unprecedented
We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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Alone Create Feeling Proximity Soul Understand
It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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Critical Experiment Initiate Knowledge People Qualities Risk
The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Competition Face Moment Result Sacred Task
Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Always Control Criticism Inner Listen Self Voice Wise
We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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Approach Awareness Repair Reverence Spirit Unless Word
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
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
The awe of God is wisdom.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Clinging Endless Faith Heart Shrine
Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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