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.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELTo abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men.
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Time is an essential dimension of existence defiant of man’s power, and truth reigns in supreme majesty, unrivaled, inimitable, and can never be defeated.
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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.
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In any free society where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty – all are responsible.
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To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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How embarrassing for man to be the greatest miracle on earth and not to understand it!
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Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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To abstain completely from all enjoyments may be easy. Yet to enjoy life and retain spiritual integrity – there is the challenge.
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But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.
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Every little deed counts.
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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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What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.
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