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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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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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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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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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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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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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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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