There is no specialized art of prayer. All of life must be a training to pray. We pray the way we live.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELIn the second way he sees in what surrounds him things to be acknowledged, understood, valued or admired.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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All events are secretly interrelated; the sweep of all we are doing reaches beyond the horizon of our comprehension.
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The hour calls for moral grandeur and spiritual audacity.
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Worship is a way of seeing the world in the light of God.
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To sense a ray of God’s radiance in the jungles of history.
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Dear Lord, grant me the grace of wonder. Surprise me, amaze me, awe me in every crevice of your universe.
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Faith is an awareness of divine mutuality and companionship, a form of communion between God and man.
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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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There are two primary ways in which mans relates himself to the world that surround him: manipulation and appreciation .
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The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one’s own tradition with reverence for different traditions.
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I did not ask for success; I asked for wonder.
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People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age….
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The degree to which one is sensitive to other people’s suffering, to other (people’s) humanity, is the index of one’s own humanity
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When I see an act of evil I don’t accomodate, I don’t accomodate myself to the violence that goes on everywhere.
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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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To answer, to live in a way which is compatible with the grandeur and mystery of living.
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