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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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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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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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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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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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