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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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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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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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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.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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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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