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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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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.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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