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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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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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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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Feeling Good Gratefulness Soul
Man has indeed become primarily a tool-making animal, and the world is now a gigantic tool box for the satisfaction of his needs.
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Animal Box Indeed Man Primarily Satisfaction Tool
Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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Only those will apprehend religion who can probe its depth, who can combine intuition and love with the rigor of method
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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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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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Deathblow Episode Health Injurious Injustice Prophets Welfare
The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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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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