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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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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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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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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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