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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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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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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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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 the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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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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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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