All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIs not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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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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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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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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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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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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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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