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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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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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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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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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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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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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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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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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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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