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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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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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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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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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Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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