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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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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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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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