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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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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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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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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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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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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.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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