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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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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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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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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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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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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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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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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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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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