The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELEverything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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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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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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New 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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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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