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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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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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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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