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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Bible Compromise Demand Imperative Memory Remember
There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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Absurdm Incessant Against Glorification Universal Vulgar Wage
Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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Clear Common Loyal Man Presence Ultimate
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
It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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Critical Experiment Initiate Knowledge People Qualities Risk
To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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Answer Compatible Grandeur Live Mystery
Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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Care Concern Essence Existence Human Justice Perplexity Solved Transcend
However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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Axiom Convert Operate Outside Perception
Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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Everytime Forgot Loss Man Memory Message Messenger
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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Day Interlude Passion Sabbath Sake Week Weekday
When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Authority Compassion Message Name Religion Speak Voice
To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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Mean Real Voice
God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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Air Compassion Everywhere Father God Noble People Sentiment
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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Celebrate Meaning Sabbath Six Space Time Trying Tyranny Week
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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Cure Hysteria Incursion Necessary Period Recovery Solitude
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

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