There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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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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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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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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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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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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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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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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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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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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