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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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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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All action is vicarious faith.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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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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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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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 issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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