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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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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.
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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.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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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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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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Created God Self Trust Word
We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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