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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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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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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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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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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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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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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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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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