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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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I am commanded therefore I am.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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Every little deed counts.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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