Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELI would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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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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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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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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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
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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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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear-filling grandeur. Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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