Prayer begins where our power ends.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWe worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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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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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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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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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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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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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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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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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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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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