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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Awe 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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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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