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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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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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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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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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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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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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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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