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Abraham Joshua Heschel

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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Entirely Law Negative Regard Reject
When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Authority Compassion Message Name Religion Speak Voice
Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Corrupt Forgery Happiness Magnifies Rude Selfish
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.
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Active Appreciation Celebration Expressing Reverence State
(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Attain Fulfillment Human Human Being People Pertain Shared
There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Endlessly Exclusive Given Hour Moment Two Unique Years
The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Destroy Liturgical Movement Revolutionary Seeking
The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
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Ability Faith God Issue Play Pray Prayer Unless
We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Air Spring Sunday
We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Agree Dawn Mock Scoff Sneer Star Totality
To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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Business Cheating Disaster Exploitation Injustice Poor Single
To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Answer Compatible Grandeur Live Mystery
Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Deed Divine Extol Pagan Prophets Sacred Thing
Philosophy, to be relevant, must offer us a wisdom to live by.
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Live Must Often People Philosophy Relevant Wisdom World
New insight begins when satisfaction comes to an end, when all that has been seen, said, or done looks like a distortion. …
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Begin Done Insight Look Man Satisfaction
That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL

Equation Existence Man Own Self Thinking Transcend Trap

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