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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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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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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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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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We worship God through our questions.
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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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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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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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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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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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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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