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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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To be is to stand for.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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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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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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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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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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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 dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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