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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELEach 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.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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To be is to stand for.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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