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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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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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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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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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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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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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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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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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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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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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