Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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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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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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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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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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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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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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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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