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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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Callousness Hatred Meaningless Overthrow Prayer Pyramid Ruin Seek Subversive Unless
The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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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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I am commanded therefore I am.
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Commanded Feeling Proud Self Therefore
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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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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Absurdm Incessant Against Glorification Universal Vulgar Wage
Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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Amass Face Goal Healing Higher Moment Scared Spiritual Wealth
Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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Adventure Commonplace Friendship Gregariousness Heart Human Loyalty Man Relationship Syllogstic
The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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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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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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