Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELMan’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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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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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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The essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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To be is to stand for.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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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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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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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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