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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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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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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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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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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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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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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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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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God is either of no importance, or of supreme importance.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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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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