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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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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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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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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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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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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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