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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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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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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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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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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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Every little deed counts.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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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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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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