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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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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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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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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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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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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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