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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 gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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We worship God through our questions.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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