To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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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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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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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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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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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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