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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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Instead of indulging in jealousy, greed, in relishing themselves, there are men who keep their hearts alert to the stillness in which time rolls on and leaves us behind.
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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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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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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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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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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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