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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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
All action is vicarious faith.
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Action Believe Faith Hope Vicarious
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
We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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Fool Spirit Tool Tragedy Vessel Word
The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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Able Essence Hard Work Man Mindset Positive
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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Apart Being Human Capacity Independence Mode Resist Self Sufficiency
Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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Action Attention Celebration Confrontation Giving Transcendent
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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Faith Gardener Lord Mankind May Plant Sacred Secret Upland
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
Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Corrupt Forgery Happiness Magnifies Rude Selfish
Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Clinging Endless Faith Heart Shrine
It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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Answer Answering Ask Encompass Enough Know Querry Questions Want
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
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
Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Deeds Speech End Fade Power Sound State
We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Audacity Forfeit God Hour Humiliate Long Moral Negroes Right Spiritual

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