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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.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
Age: 65 †
Born: 1907
Born: January 11
Died: 1972
Died: December 23
Judaic Scholar
Philosopher
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Warszawa
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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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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind. Mankind will not perish for want of information but only for want of appreciation.
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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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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one's faith.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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The man who has not suffered - what does he know anyway?
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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I did not ask for success I asked for wonder.
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