The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL
Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement. ….get up in the morning and look at the world in a way that takes nothing for granted.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The true meaning of existence is disclosed in moments of living in the presence of God
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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Man’s sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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I have one talent, and that is the capacity to be tremendously surprised, surprised at life, at ideas. This is to me the supreme Hasidic imperative: Don’t be old. Don’t be stale.
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Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
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As civilization advances, the sense of wonder declines. Such decline is an alarming symptom of our state of mind.
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
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There are few ideas in the world of thought which contain so much spiritual power as the idea of the Sabbath.
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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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We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God?
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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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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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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This may be the vocation of man: to say “Amen” to being and to the Author of being; to live in defiance of absurdity, notwithstanding futility and defeat; to attain faith in God even in spite of God.
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