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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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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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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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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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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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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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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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