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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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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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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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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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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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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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