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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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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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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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We worship God through our questions.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind–these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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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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