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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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All action is vicarious faith.
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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 road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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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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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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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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