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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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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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Attitude Existing Information Prior Soul
Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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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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Horrified Horror Left Loss Sense
We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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Approach Awareness Repair Reverence Spirit Unless Word
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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Equation Existence Man Own Self Thinking Transcend Trap
The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Anyone Doe Know Man Suffered Suggest
People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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Anxious Financial Maturity Mean People Prepare Spiritual
Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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Maturity Retire Sudden Tranquility Wisdom
The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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Commitment Decision Living Love Risk Worth
The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Audacity Call Grandeur Hour Moral Spiritual
Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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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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Beyond End Itself Life Meaningful Serving Someone Unless Value
feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Feel Feels Eternal Passing Rush Stillness
Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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Faith Hard Work Job Religious Result Shaken Success

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