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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Bible Compromise Demand Imperative Memory Remember
In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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