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Prayer begins where our power ends.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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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 beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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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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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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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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To be is to stand for.
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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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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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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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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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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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