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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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Beyond End Itself Life Meaningful Serving Someone Unless Value
Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Absurdity Art Beyond Count Deed Meaning Power Remember
The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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Destroy Liturgical Movement Revolutionary Seeking
The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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Love Rascal Relate Saint Scholar Test
Indeed, the sort of crimes and even the amount of delinquency that fill the prophets of Israel with dismay do not go beyond that which we regard as normal, as typical ingredients of social dynamics.
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Cheating Country Crime Delinquency Dismay Israel People Prophet
Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Corrupt Forgery Happiness Magnifies Rude Selfish
Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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Beginning Common Enable Infinite Simple Small World
There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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Endlessly Exclusive Given Hour Moment Two Unique Years
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Clinging Endless Faith Heart Shrine
People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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Amused Appreciation Entertainment Giving People Seek
There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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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.
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Applauding Bible Civilization Complacency Emotion Knives Positive Quote Slashing Voice
And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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Entirely Law Negative Regard Reject
In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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Managed Object Put Second Surround Use Way
Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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Awareness Companionship Divine Faith God Man Mind Mutuality Quality
We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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Asking Closer God Question Thinking
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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Active Appreciation Celebration Expressing Reverence State
The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
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Awake Cosmos Endeavor Involved Man Mystic
Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Appreciation Information Mankind Perish Want
Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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Felt Leg March Praying Word Worship
Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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Age Animal Attainment Chief Man Merit Nature Power Taken Usefulness
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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Common Eternal Feel Passing Rush Stillness Ultimate
Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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Amazement Anything Beyond Final Radical Reality Refusing Way Wonder
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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Darkness Entombed First God Hopelessness Light Peer Strangled
We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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Different Hub Pray Prayer Self Setting Step World
Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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Ability Awe Conceit Conseil Diminish Forfeit Market Place Revere Sense Universe
In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Center Consciousness Living Prayer Self Shift Surrender

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