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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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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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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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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with 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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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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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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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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