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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELOnly in His presence shall we learn that the glory of humankind is not in its will to power but in its power of compassion.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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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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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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Celebration is an active state, an act of expressing reverence or appreciation. To be entertained is a passive state–it is to receive pleasure afforded by an amusing act or a spectacle.
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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Self-respect is the root of discipline
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
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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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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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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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