There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELA prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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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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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Each 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.
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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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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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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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