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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The awe of God is wisdom.
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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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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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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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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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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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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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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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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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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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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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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