We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELFaith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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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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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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By the word of God the world was created.
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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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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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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 essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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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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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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