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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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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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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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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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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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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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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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