When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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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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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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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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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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