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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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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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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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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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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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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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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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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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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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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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I am commanded therefore I am.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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