To sense the ultimate in the common and the simple, to feel in the rush of the passing the stillness of the eternal.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELEach day enrapture me with your marvelous things without number. …I do not ask to see the reason for it all: I ask only to share the wonder of it all.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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Faith like Job’s cannot be shaken becasue it is the result of having been shaken.
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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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Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
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Awareness of the divine begins with wonder.
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Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
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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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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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We must first peer into the darkness, feel strangled and entombed in the hopelessness of living without God, before we are ready to feel the presence of His living light.
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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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Celebration is a confrontation, giving attention to the transcendent meaning of one’s actions.
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Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence.
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Every little deed counts.
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Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!
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The liturgical movement must become a revolutionary movement seeking to overthrow the forces that continue to destroy the promise, the hope, the vision.
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