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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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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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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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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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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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