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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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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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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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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.
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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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