To be spiritual is to be amazed.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo us a single act of injustice–cheating in business, exploitation of the poor–is slight; to the prophets, a disaster.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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What we cannot comprehend by analysis, we become aware of in awe.
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Life without commitment is not worth living.
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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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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
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Awe is an intuition for the dignity of all things, a realization that things not only are what they are but also stand, however remotely, for something supreme.
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Then comes the insight that All is God. One still realizes that the world is as it was, but it does not matter, it does not affect one’s faith.
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In the midst of our applauding the feats of civilization, the Bible flings itself like a knife slashing our complacency; remind us that God, too, has a voice in history.
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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 essence of man is not what he is, but in what he is able to be.
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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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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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It is dangerous to take human freedom for granted, to regard it as a prerogative rather than as an obligation, as an ultimate fact rather than as an ultimate goal.
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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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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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That man can never transcend his own self. The most fatal trap into which thinking may fall is the equation of existence and expediency.
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The anchor of meaning resides in an abyss, deeper than the reach of despair.
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One of the major symptoms of the general crisis existent in our world today is our lack of sensitivity to words.
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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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It’s silence remains unbroken; no words can carry it away. Sometimes we wish the world could cry and tell us about that which made it pregnant with fear–filling grandeur.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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