Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL
What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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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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In prayer we shift the center of living from self-consciousness to self-surrender
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Prayer cannot bring water to parched fields, or mend a broken bridge, or rebuild a ruined city; but prayer can water an arid soul, mend a broken heart, and rebuild a weakened will.
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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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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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Prayer may not save us. But prayer may make us worthy of being saved.
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The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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God is everywhere or nowhere, the father of all people or of none, concerned about everything or nothing.
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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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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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