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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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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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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 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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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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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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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Heart heavy Sometimes Speak Wish Wonder
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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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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Every little deed counts.
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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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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Always Control Criticism Inner Listen Self Voice Wise

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