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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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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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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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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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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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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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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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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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