Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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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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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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