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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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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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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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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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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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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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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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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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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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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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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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Expediency Fall Man Motivation Naturally Right Supreme
There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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Endlessly Exclusive Given Hour Moment Two Unique Years

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