All action is vicarious faith.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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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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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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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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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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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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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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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
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