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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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Every little deed counts.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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It is a day on which we are called upon to share in what is eternal in time, to turn from the results of creation to the mystery of creation; from the world of creation to the creation of the world.
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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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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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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.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple: to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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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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Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.
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We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
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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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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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Life goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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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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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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