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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Capacity Idea Surprise Surprised Talent Tremendously
Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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Active Appreciation Celebration Expressing Reverence State
(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Archive Care Fellowship Fullness Help Other People
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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Axiom Convert Operate Outside Perception
It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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Dangerous Freedom Human Obligation Prerogative Regard
Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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Acceptance Appreciate Appreciation High Seem Value
We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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Air Spring Sunday
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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Compassion Completely Creed Habit Ignored Name Past Replaced Today
But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Affection Care Culture Gold Helpless Incurable Old
You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Art Build Dream Hard Work Life Motivate Success Work
It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Answer Answering Ask Encompass Enough Know Querry Questions Want
By the word of God the world was created.
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Created God Self Trust Word
We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Asking Closer God Question Thinking
Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Amazed Everything Life Phenomenal
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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Earth Failure Forget God Man Master Servant Sin
For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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Leg Lip March Montgomery Prayer Selma Song Walking

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