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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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By the word of God the world was created.
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Created God Self Trust Word
For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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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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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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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Category Higher Maintaining Power
Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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Church God Greater Seem Separation State

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