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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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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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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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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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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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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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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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