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Prayer begins where our power ends.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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 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
Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Compassion Greatest Man Passion Person Religious
Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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Action Attention Celebration Confrontation Giving Transcendent
I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Ask Mindset Motivation Positive Success Wonder
God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Either God Importance Important Supreme
However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Compassion Other Passion Strength Suffer Time
Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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Callousness Hatred Meaningless Overthrow Prayer Pyramid Ruin Seek Subversive Unless
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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Fool Spirit Tool Tragedy Vessel Word
Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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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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Broken Existed Our Prayer Sensitivity Symptom Today World
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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Discipline Fruit Inspirational Life Respect Warrior
The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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