When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThere 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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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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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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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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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 anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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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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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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