Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPrayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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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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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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