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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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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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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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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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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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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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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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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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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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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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