Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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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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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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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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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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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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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.
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