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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Amazed Everything Life Phenomenal
Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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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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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Dream Envision God Holy League Pray Vision
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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We worship God through our questions.
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Blessing Divine God Importance Need Question Spiritual Worship

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