The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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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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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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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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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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