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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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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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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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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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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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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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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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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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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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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.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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