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• Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.

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  Prayer, Humble, Answers

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.341, Macmillan

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• To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.

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  Praying, Mystery, Wonder

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.341, Macmillan

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• The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt. There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal. Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .

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  War, Men, Tasks

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.11, Macmillan

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• There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate, to answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.

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  Gratitude, Men, Answers

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• The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.

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  Fashion, Memories, Character

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion”, p.162, Macmillan

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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. God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.

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  Atheist, Reality, Understanding God

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism”, p.120, Macmillan

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

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  Dream, League, Vision

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1983). “I Asked for Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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• When we pray, we bring G-d into the world

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  World, Praying

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• There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious. Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.

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  Unique, Years, Two

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (2005). “The Sabbath”, p.20, Macmillan

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• The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.

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  Weekdays, Sake, Sabbath

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (2005). “The Sabbath”, p.26, Macmillan

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• Prayer begins where our power ends.

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  Prayer, Ends

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• Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one's faith.

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  God, Doe, World

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• Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.

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  Philosophy, Relevant, Live By

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1965). “Who is Man?”, p.13, Stanford University Press

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• Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced. The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.

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  Real, Men, Knowing

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1963). “The earth is the Lord's, and The Sabbath”

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• A soul can create only when alone.

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  Soul, Proximity

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1973). “A Passion for Truth”, p.259, Macmillan

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• We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.

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  Stars, Dawn, Mock

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion”, p.25, Macmillan

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• All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.

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  Relationship, Horizon, Events

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion”, p.270, Macmillan

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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. ... those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.

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  Heart, Men, Greed

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.331, Macmillan

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• Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.

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  Forgery

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.80, Macmillan

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

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  Prayer, Issues

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1983). “I Asked for Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology”, Crossroad Publishing Company

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• Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.

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  Self, Independence, Being Human

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1965). “Who is Man?”, p.44, Stanford University Press

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• New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. ... Man's true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.

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  Men, Looks, Done

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.31, Macmillan

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• Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.

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  Respect, Inspirational Life, Warrior

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.44, Macmillan

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• In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch. Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing. The result of our thinginess is our blindness to all reality that fails to identify itself as a thing, as a matter of fact.

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  Eye, Reality, Space

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1955). “Insecurity of Freedom”, p.80, Macmillan

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• Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.

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  Forfeit, Conceit, Ability

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1976). “God in Search of Man: A Philosophy of Judaism”, p.78, Macmillan

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