Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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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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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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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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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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