More from Abraham Joshua Heschel
Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society’s hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel 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.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel We cannot approach the spirit unless we repair the vessels. Reverence for words – an awareness of the wonder of words, of the mystery of words – is an essential prerequisite for prayer.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel Sometimes we wish our own heart would speak of that which made it heavy with wonder.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel Spiritual life begins to decay when we fail to sense the grandeur of what is eternal in time.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one’s role in relation to all other beings.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel Our age is one in which usefulness is thought to be the chief merit of nature; in which the attainment of power
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel To pray is to take notice of the wonder, to regain a sense of the mystery that animates all beings, the divine margin in all attainments.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel It is gratefulness which makes the soul great.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel Remember that there is meaning beyond absurdity. Know that every deed counts, that every word is power…Above all, remember that you must build your life as if it were a work of art.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel
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Sophie SmithSophie Smith You thought it wouldn’t live again. But it will live again.
Carisa DownsCarisa Downs The world is not allowed to make a meal of you, girl. It is there for your consuming.
Nikita GillNikita Gill We all carry the heaviest anchors without anyone having a clue about it.
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People have experiences in art museums today that they used to have in church.
Bill ViolaBill Viola DREAM PREDICTION ELITE is the realization of true amazement in your audiences reactions. This is PURE GOLD – A REAL WINNER
BanachekBanachek We are, none of us, ‘either’ mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.
Adrienne RichAdrienne Rich The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement.
Hans SelyeHans Selye 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 HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel Wonder or radical amazement is the chief characteristic of the religious man’s attitude toward history and nature.
Abraham Joshua HeschelAbraham Joshua Heschel A moving or movement away from a station A waving away from a waving a motion Amazement a moment amazing a waving
Jim MorrisonJim Morrison The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.
Andy WarholAndy Warhol
