Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIn 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.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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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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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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to become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words…the tangent to the curve of human experience lies beyond the limits of language.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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