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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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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 tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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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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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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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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