At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAt all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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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 are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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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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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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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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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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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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