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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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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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In a controversy, the instant we feel anger, we have already ceased striving for truth and have begun striving for ourselves.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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