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.
"The Jewish moral virtues". Book by Eugene Borowitz, 1999.
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