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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is 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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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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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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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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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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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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