Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Heschel on Prayer

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. Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.

― Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972)

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

― Abraham Joshua Heschel (1907-1972), from Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays


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