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886 Theologian Quotes

Helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas

Helplessness Prayer Calls Heart
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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.

Ask God Never Success Power
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.

Guilty Responsible Few
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.

Blessing Just Live Holy
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.

Faith Clinging Shrine Endless
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Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Root Discipline Sense Dignity
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.

Happiness Beginning Lies Life
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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.

Reason Arrogance Betrays Intelligence
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.

Prayer Begins Edge Emptiness
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.

God Importance Supreme
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
Prayer Answer Humble Surprise
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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.

Talent Capacity Surprised Life
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A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

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

Pray Dream League God
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Racism is man's gravest threat to man - the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.

Racism Threat Gravest Hatred
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God

True Meaning Existence Disclosed
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The prophets never taught that God and history are one, or that whatever happens below reflects the will of God above. Their vision is of man defying God, and God seeking man to reconcile with Him.

Prophets Never Taught God
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Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.

Jew Decays Integrity Knowledge
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man's attitude toward history and nature.

Wonder Radical Amazement Attitude
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In Jewish tradition, dying in one’s sleep is called a kiss of God, and dying on the Sabbath is a gift that is merited by piety. For the pious person, my father once wrote, it is a privilege to die.

Tradition Jewish Dying Piety
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Short is the way from need to greed.

Greed Short Need
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What seems to be a stone is a drama.
Stone Drama Seems
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Only that which is good for all men is good for every man. No one is truly inspired for his own sake. He who is blessed, is a blessing for others.

Truly Good Men Every man
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.

Know Understanding Noble Sentiments
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There is a passion and drive for cruel deeds which only the awe and fear of God can soothe; there is a suffocating selfishness in man which only holiness can ventilate.

Fear God Cruel Deeds
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The solution of mankind’s most vexing problem will not be found in renouncing technical civilization, but in attaining some degree of independence of it.

Solution Mankind Technical Civilization
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Awe precedes faith.

Awe Faith Precedes
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The surest way to suppress our ability to understand the meaning of God and the importance of worship is to take things for granted...Indifference to the sublime wonder of living is the root of sin.

Surest Ability Meaning Worship
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
Wise Criticism Begins Self-criticism
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Faced with the mind-surpassing grandeur of the universe, we cannot but admit that there is meaning which is greater than man.

Grandeur Universe Meaning Admit
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Happy is he who is aware of the mysteries of his Lord.

Happy Lord Aware Mysteries
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Sanctification is dependent upon human behavior and attitude.

Sanctification Dependent Human Attitude
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Just as we are commanded to keep the Sabbath, we are commanded to labor.

Labor Commanded Keep Sabbath
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Unless one learns how to relish the taste of Sabbath … one will be unable to enjoy the taste of eternity in the world to come.

Learns Taste Sabbath Eternity
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We may assume it is God we care for, but it may be our own ego we are concerned with. To examine our religious existence is, therefore, a task to be performed constantly.

Examine Task God Ego
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No man is free who is not a master of himself, that the more liberties we enjoy, the more discipline we need.

Free Man Liberties Discipline
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Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

Exceed Flies Flowers Me
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'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.

Again Complain Heard Him
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For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
Always Finds Hands Idle
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Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.

Ignorance Own Your Yourself
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Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
Difficult Learning Life Most
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Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.

Acquire Come Depart Down
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I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.

All The World Calls Change Estate
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The Spirit of prayer makes us so intimate with God that we scarcely pass through an experience before we speak to Him about it, either in supplication, in sighing, in pouring out our woes before Him, in fervent requests, or in thanksgiving and adoration.

Spirit Prayer Makes God
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Prayer and helplessness are inseparable. Only he who is helpless can truly pray. Your helplessness is your best. prayer.

Prayer Helplessness Inseparable
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Prayer is the conduit through which power from heaven is brought to earth

Prayer Conduit Power Heaven
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We need to learn to know Him so well that we feel safe when we have left our difficulties with Him. To know in that way is a prerequisite of all true prayer.

Need Learn Well Feel
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Be sure to remember that nothing in your daily life is so insignificant and so inconsequential that the Lord will not help you by answering your prayer.

Life Insignificant Inconsequential
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It is God's will not only to hear our prayer, but to give us the best and the richest answer which He, the almighty and omniscient God, can devise. He will send us the answer when it will benefit us and His cause the most.

God Best Hear Prayer
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To pray is nothing more involved than to open the door, giving Jesus access to our needs and permitting Him to exercise His own power in dealing with them.

Giving Involved Pray Open
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