Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELForfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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And yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
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Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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Judaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Every little deed counts.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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