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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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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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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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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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