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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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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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A soul can create only when alone.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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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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