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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAwe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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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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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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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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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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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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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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