To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAnd yet we must not regard this revolt as entirely negative. The energy that rejects many obsolete laws is an entirely positive impulse for renewal of life and law.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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Awe is a sense for transcendence, for the reference everywhere to mystery beyond all things. It enables us to perceive in the world intimations of the divine.
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Everything is phenomenal; everything is incredible; never treat life casually. To be spiritual is to be amazed.
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A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children.
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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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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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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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The work on weekdays and the rest on the seventh day are correlated. The Sabbath is the inspirer, the other days the inspired.
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We forfeit the right to worship God as long as we continue to humiliate negroes. … The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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This is one of the goals of the Jewish way of living: to experience commonplace deeds as spiritual adventures, to feel the hidden love and wisdom in all things.
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I would say about individuals, A Individual dies when they cease to to be surprised. I am surprised every morning when I see the sunshine again.
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Awe enables us to see in the world intimations of the divine, to sense in small things the beginning of infinite significance
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Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.
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When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.
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Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is a reality or a figment of the mind.
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We can never sneer at the stars, mock the dawn, or scoff at the totality of being.
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