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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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God cannot be sensed as a second thought, as an explanation of the origin of the universe. He is either the first and the last, or just another concept.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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Against Learn Mut Still Surprise
To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Become Company Ineffable Part Word
Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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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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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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Character Fashion Follow Man Memories Memory Rich Soul Stored Test
Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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Clear Common Loyal Man Presence Ultimate
Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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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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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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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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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.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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