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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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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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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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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
Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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To be is to stand for.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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