Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELEverything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Normal consciousness is a state of stupor, in which the sensibility to the wholly real and responsiveness to the stimuli of the spirit are reduced.
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When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendors of the past
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It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
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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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It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.
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Proximity to the crowd, to the majority view, spells the death of creativity. For a soul can create only when alone, and some are chosen for the flowering that takes place in the dark avenues of night.
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Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum of hatred for a minimum of reason.
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The opposite of good is not evil, the opposite of good is indifference.
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When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
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Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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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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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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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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I am commanded therefore I am.
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