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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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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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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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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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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 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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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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