We use words as tools. We forget that words are a repository of the spirit. The tragedy of our times is that the vessels of the spirit are broken.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHEL(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
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Every little deed counts.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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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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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.
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All that is left is to us is our being horrified at the loss of our sense of horror.
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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible.
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A religious man is a person… whose greatest passion is compassion.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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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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Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart.
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