In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPhilosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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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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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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