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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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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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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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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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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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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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The awe of God is wisdom.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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