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;
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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Self-sufficiency, independence, the capacity to stand apart, to differ, to resist, and to defy-all are modes of being human.
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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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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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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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