Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThere are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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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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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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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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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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