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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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We worship God through our questions.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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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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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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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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