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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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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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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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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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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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