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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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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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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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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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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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For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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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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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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