I 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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIt is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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To us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
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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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The meaning of the Sabbath is to celebrate time rather than space. Six days a week we live under the tyranny of things of space; on the Sabbath we try to become attuned to holiness in time.
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.
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I am still so surprised! That is why I am against it. We must learn to be surprised.
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Man’s true fulfillment depends on communion with that which transcends him.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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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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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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We worship God through our questions.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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In the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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