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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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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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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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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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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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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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