To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELYou must build your life as if it were a work of art.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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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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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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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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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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