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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.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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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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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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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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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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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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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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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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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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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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