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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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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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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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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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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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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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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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