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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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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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There is happiness in the love of labor, there is misery in the love of gain.
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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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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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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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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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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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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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We worship God through our questions.
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