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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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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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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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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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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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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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