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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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Church God Greater Seem Separation State
Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Amazed Casually Incredible Phenomenal Spiritual Treat
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Blessing Faith Gratitude Holy Life
A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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Ability God Greatness Hold Man Prophet Thought
A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Compassion Greatest Man Passion Person Religious
We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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Fool Spirit Tool Tragedy Vessel Word
To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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Doe Mean Serve Share Surrender
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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Argument Atheist Attained Debate God Order Reality Session Understanding
The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Answer New Query Question Rise
We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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Different Hub Pray Prayer Self Setting Step World
However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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Axiom Convert Operate Outside Perception
Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Everytime Forgot Loss Man Memory Message Messenger
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
I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Ask Mindset Motivation Positive Success Wonder
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Clinging Endless Faith Heart Shrine
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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Center Function Hub Prayer Revolving Spoke Wheel

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