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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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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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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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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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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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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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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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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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Prayer is our humble answer to the inconceivable surprise of living.
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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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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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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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