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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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All action is vicarious faith.
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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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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of 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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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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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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