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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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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.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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We worship God through our questions.
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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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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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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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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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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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