The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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 primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Every little deed counts.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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There is a war to wage against the vulgar, the glorification of the absurd, a war that is incessant, universal.
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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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Indifference to evil is more insidious than evil itself. It is a silent justification affording evil acceptability in society.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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We worship God through our questions.
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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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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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