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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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Create Creativity Dark Death Majority Night Soul
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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Age Animal Attainment Chief Man Merit Nature Power Taken Usefulness
All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Horrified Horror Left Loss Sense
The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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Degree Humanity Index One People Sensitive Suffering
The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Answer New Query Question Rise
Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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Amazement Attitude Faith History Nature Radical Religious
God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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Assumption Darkness Evident God Hypothesis Immediate Insight Light Self
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Ability Inspirational Life Motivational Oneself Respect Self Sense
Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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Aeon Cherished Cosmic Shread Tapestry Theory
What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Category Higher Maintaining Power
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 may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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Divine Power Prayer Save Saved Worthy
There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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Aeons Contain Idea Power Sabbath Shining Spiritual World
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Clinging Endless Faith Heart Shrine
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Admired Bullying Clever Kind Kindness Old People Young
We worship God through our questions.
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Blessing Divine God Importance Need Question Spiritual Worship

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