To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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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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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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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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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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