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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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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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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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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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Awareness of the divine begins with 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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