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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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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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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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Commanded Feeling Proud Self Therefore
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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Deception Mundas People Vanity Vault World
The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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Art Knowledge never Private Property Sky Teacher Teaching
We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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Darkness Entombed First God Hopelessness Light Peer Strangled
To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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Doe Mean Serve Share Surrender
The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Clinging Endless Faith Heart Shrine

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