For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWhen we pray, we bring G-d into the world
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The supremacy of expediency is being refuted by time and truth.
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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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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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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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God is not nice. God is not an uncle. God is an earthquake.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance.
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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To us injustice is injurious to the welfare of the people; to the prophets it is a deathblow to existence: to us, an episode; to them, a catastrophe, a threat to the world.
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feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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