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 HESCHELFaith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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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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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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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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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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