Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELEverything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
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Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions. Source: The Wisdom of Heschel
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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The awe of God is wisdom.
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Loyal to the presence of the ultimate in the common, we may be able to make it clear that man is more than man, that in doing the finite he may perceive the infinite .
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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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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Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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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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