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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.

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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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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To be is to stand for.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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