Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELLife goes wrong when the control of space, the acquisition of things of space, becomes our sole concern.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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Pagans exalt sacred things, the Prophets extol sacred deeds.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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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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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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The Sabbath is not for the sake of the weekdays; the weekdays are for the sake of Sabbath. It is not an interlude but the climax of living.
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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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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By the word of God the world was created.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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Each day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
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