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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.

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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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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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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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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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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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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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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