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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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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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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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By the word of God the world was created.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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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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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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