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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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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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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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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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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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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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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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