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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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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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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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Every little deed counts.
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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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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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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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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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