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Prayer begins where our power ends.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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Earth Failure Forget God Man Master Servant Sin
Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Experience Pray Praying World
There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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Appreciation Man Manipulation Primary Relate Surround Two Use
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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Compassion Glory Humankind Power Presence Will
That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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Equation Existence Man Own Self Thinking Transcend Trap
You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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Leg Lip March Montgomery Prayer Selma Song Walking
God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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Action Believe Faith Hope Vicarious
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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Expediency Fall Man Motivation Naturally Right Supreme
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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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Begin Desire Edge Emptiness Hope Mindfulness Prayer
Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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Beginning Common Enable Infinite Simple Small World

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