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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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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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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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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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