The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe 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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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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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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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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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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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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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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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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