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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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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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Aeon Cherished Cosmic Shread Tapestry Theory
Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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Beginning Common Enable Infinite Simple Small World
Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Decay Eternal Failing Grandeur Spiritual Time
The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Answer New Query Question Rise
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
In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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Applauding Bible Civilization Complacency Emotion Knives Positive Quote Slashing Voice
Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Deed Divine Extol Pagan Prophets Sacred Thing
It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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Beyond Exist Force Mind Physical Quality
God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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Either God Importance Important Supreme
To be is to stand for.
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Be Nature Positive Power Raise Stand To Voice
Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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Gravest Hatred Man Minimum Racism Reason Threat
Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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Deception Mundas People Vanity Vault World
In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Free Guilty Responsible Society Terrible
We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Asking Closer God Question Thinking
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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