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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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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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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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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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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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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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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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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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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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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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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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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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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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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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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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