Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELI did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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To become aware of the ineffable is to part company with words.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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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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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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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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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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When faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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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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