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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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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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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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Faith Gardener Lord Mankind May Plant Sacred Secret Upland
When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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