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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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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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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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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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