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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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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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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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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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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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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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We worship God through our questions.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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Every little deed counts.
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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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