feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal
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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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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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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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Mankind will not perish for want of information; but only for want of appreciation.
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Life is not meaningful…unle ss it is serving an end beyond itself; unless it is of value to someone else.
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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All action is vicarious faith.
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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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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The primary purpose of prayer is not to make requests. The primary purpose is to praise, to sing, to chant. Because the essence of prayer is a song, and man cannot live without a song.
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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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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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