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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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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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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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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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