Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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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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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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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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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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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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