In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAll events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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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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The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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