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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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In our daily lives we attend primarily to that which the senses are spelling out for us: to what the eyes perceive, to what the fingers touch.
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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.
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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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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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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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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All action is vicarious faith.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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