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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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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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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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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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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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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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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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We may not know whether our understanding is correct, or whether our sentiments are noble, but the air of the day surrounds us like spring which spreads over the land without our aid or notice.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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