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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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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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Entirely Law Negative Regard Reject
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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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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Answer Compatible Grandeur Live Mystery
Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Almost Entrance Faith Front God Heart Holy Open Thinking
At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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Earth Failure Forget God Man Master Servant Sin
The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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