I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELWhen I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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He who is satisfied has never truly craved, and he who craves for the light of God neglects his ease for ardor.
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The utilization of its resources is taken to be the chief purpose of man in God’s creation.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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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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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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Knowledge-like the sky- is never private property. No teacher has a right to withhold it from anyone who asks for it. Teaching is the art of sharing.
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The time for the kingdom may be far off, but the task is plain: to retain our share in God in spite of peril and contempt.
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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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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Society today is no longer in revolt against particular laws which it finds alien, unjust, and imposed, but against law as such, against the principle of law.
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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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