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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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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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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Evil Good Indifference Opposite
When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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Amazement Anything Beyond Final Radical Reality Refusing Way Wonder
Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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Dedicate Dedication End Power Prayer Soul True Will Worship
I am commanded therefore I am.
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Commanded Feeling Proud Self Therefore
Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Everytime Forgot Loss Man Memory Message Messenger
Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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