When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELSometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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The self is not the hub but the spoke of the revolving wheel. It is precisely the function of prayer to shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender.
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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
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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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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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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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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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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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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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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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At all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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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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