There is a built-in sense of indebtedness in the consciousness of man, an awareness of owing gratitude, or being caled upon at certain moments to reciprocate
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELJudaism teaches us to be attached to holiness in time; to learn how to consecrate sanctuaries that emerge from the magnificent stream of a year.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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The task of life is to face sacred moments.
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We are closer to God when we are asking questions than when we think we have the answers.
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A soul can create only when alone.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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There is no answer to Auschwitz…To try to answer is to commit a supreme blasphemy. Israel enables us to bear the agony of Auschwitz without radical despair
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The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
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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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Our concern is not how to worship in the catacombs but how to remain human in the skyscrapers.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Philosophy may be defined as the art of asking the right question…awareness of the problem outlives all solutions.
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(People achieve) fullness of being in fellowship, in care for others.
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Wonder, or radical amazement, is a way of going beyond what is given in thing and thought, refusing to take anything for granted, to regard anything as final.
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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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We do not step out of the world when we pray; we merely see the world in a different setting.
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Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong.
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