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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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Felt Leg March Praying Word Worship
Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Faith Hard Work Job Religious Result Shaken Success
To be is to stand for.
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Be Nature Positive Power Raise Stand To Voice
Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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Acceptance Appreciate Appreciation High Seem Value
The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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Combine Faced Loyalty Religious Tolerance Tradition
The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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Destroy Liturgical Movement Revolutionary Seeking
Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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God Light Seeing Way World Worship
The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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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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Catacomb Civilization Concern Human Remain Skyscraper Worship
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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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Dimension Essential Existence Expediency Men Refuted Reign Supremacy Time
Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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Amazement Goal Life Look Morning Spiritual World
This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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