The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELNew insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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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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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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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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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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