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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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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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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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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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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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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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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 true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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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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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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