Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELI am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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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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To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
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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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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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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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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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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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In the darkest night to be certain of the dawn…to go through Hell and to continue to trust in the goodness of God-this is the challenge and the way.
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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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