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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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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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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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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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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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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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To be is to stand for.
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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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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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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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