Every little deed counts.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELAcceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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Never once in my life did I ask God for success or wisdom or power or fame. I asked for wonder, and he gave it to me.
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The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack of faith.
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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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A prophet’s true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.
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To serve does not mean to surrender but to share.
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You must build your life as if it were a work of art.
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The man who has not suffered – what does he know anyway?
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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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Prayer begins where our power ends.
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It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.
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Those who are open to the wonder will not miss it. Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere.
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Reality to us is thinghood , consisting of substances that occupy space; even God is conceived by most of us as a thing.
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Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.
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Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind’s desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.
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