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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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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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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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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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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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We worship God through our questions.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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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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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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