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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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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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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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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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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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