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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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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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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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