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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Center Consciousness Living Prayer Self Shift Surrender
Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Filling Grandeur Heart Patience Pregnant Try Wish World
To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Become Company Ineffable Part Word
What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Analysis Aware Awe Comprehend
There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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Appreciation Man Manipulation Primary Relate Surround Two Use
We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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Darkness Entombed First God Hopelessness Light Peer Strangled
Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Calm Discipline Mindset Positive Respect Root Self Vibe
I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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Capacity Idea Surprise Surprised Talent Tremendously
Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Corrupt Forgery Happiness Magnifies Rude Selfish
All action is vicarious faith.
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Action Believe Faith Hope Vicarious
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
Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Answer Humble Inconceivable Living Prayer Surprise
Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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Depend Fulfillment Man Surprise True
Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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Attitude Existing Information Prior Soul
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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Done Essence Good Prize Reward Sake Virtue
To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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Business Cheating Disaster Exploitation Injustice Poor Single

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