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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is 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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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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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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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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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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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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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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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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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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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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