Life without commitment is not worth living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELThe issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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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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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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