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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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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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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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We worship God through our questions.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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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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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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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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