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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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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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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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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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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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