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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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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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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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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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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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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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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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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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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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