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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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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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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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There 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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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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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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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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By the word of God the world was created.
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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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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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