In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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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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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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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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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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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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We worship God through our questions.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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