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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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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 mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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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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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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We worship God through our questions.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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