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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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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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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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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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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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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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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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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