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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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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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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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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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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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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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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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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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