There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELPrayer begins where our power ends.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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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 answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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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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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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