When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAwe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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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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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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