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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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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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Aeons Contain Idea Power Sabbath Shining Spiritual World
Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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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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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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Advance Alarming Appreciation Civilization Mind State Symptom Wonder
Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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Beginning Common Enable Infinite Simple Small World
Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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Affording Evil Indifference Justification Silent Society
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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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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Certain Challenge Continue Darkest Dawam Faith Goodness Night
For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Authority Compassion Message Name Religion Speak Voice
Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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Attention Celebration Confrontation Transcendent
(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
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Attain Fulfillment Human Human Being People Pertain Shared
When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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Accommodate Act Everywhere Evil Look Myself
Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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Ask Done Essence Fame Good Reward Sake Virtue Wonder
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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We can all do our share to redeem the world in spite of all absurdities and all frustrations and all disappointments.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Audacity Call Grandeur Hour Moral Spiritual
It is our honest response to the grandeur and mystery of reality our confrontation with that which transcends the given.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person’s qualities but on trust.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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Action Attention Celebration Confrontation Giving Transcendent
The idea of dependence is an explanation, whereas self-sufficiency is an unprecedented, nonanalogous concept in terms of what we know about life within nature.
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Dependance Explanation Idea Nonanalogous Self Sufficiency Term Unprecedented
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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Care Concern Essence Existence Human Justice Perplexity Solved Transcend
The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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