Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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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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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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