That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELEverything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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The answers are questions in disguise, every new answer giving rise to new questions.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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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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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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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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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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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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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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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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