Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIn the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Every little deed counts.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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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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We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
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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 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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The 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.
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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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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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