Life without commitment is not worth living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL
Related Topics
Amazed
It is the beginning of wisdom to be amazed at the fact of our being free.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
-
Life without commitment is not worth living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
A soul can create only when alone.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression “being points beyond itself” may be taken to denote a higher point in space.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
The mystics, knowing that man is involved in a hidden history of the cosmos, endeavor to awake from the drowsiness and apathy and to regain the state of wakefulness for their enchanted souls.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
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 HESCHEL -
(People) can never attain fulfillment, or sense of meaning, unless it is shared, unless it pertains to other human beings.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
The world of things we perceive is but a veil. It’s flutter is music, its ornament science, but what it conceals is inscrutable.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL -
To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL