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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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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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We worship God through our questions.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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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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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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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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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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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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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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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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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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