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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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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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It is not a psychical quality, something that exists in the mind only, but a force from the beyond.
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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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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.
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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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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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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