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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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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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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.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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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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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 faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Is not self-sufficiency itself insufficient to explain self-sufficiency?
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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