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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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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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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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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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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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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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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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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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