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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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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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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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Only in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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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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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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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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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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