Prayer is not a monologue. It speaks to God and to the community. In the last analysis, religion … - David Wolpe

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I am ready to defend my convictions even unto death. I have followed the Sacred Scriptures and the holy doctors.

David Wolpe

Prayer is not a monologue. It speaks to God and to the community. In the last analysis, religion is not what goes on inside a soul. It is what goes on in the world, between people, between us and God. To trap faith in a monologue, and pretend that it resides solely inside the self, undermines the true interchange of all belief.

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There is a marvelous story of a man who once stood before God, his heart breaking from the pain and injustice in the world. "Dear God. " he cried out, "look at all the suffering, the anguish and distress in your world. Why don't you send help?" God responded,"I did send help. I sent you. " When we tell our children that story, we must tell them that each one of them was sent to help repair the broken world-and that it is not the task of an instant or of a year, but of a lifetime.

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The only whole heart is a broken one because it lets the light in.

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