The beginning of our happiness lies in the understanding that life without wonder is not worth living.
ABRAHAM JOSHUA HESCHELJust to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
More Abraham Joshua Heschel Quotes
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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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The test of love is in how one relates not to saints and scholars but to rascals.
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Aeons hence, when of many of our cherished theories only shreds will remain, that cosmic tapestry will continue to shine.
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People of our time are losing the power of celebration. Instead of celebrating we seek to be amused or entertained.
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Mundus vult decipi’—the world wants to be deceived.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.
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Forfeit your sense of awe, let your conceit diminish your ability to revere, and the universe becomes a market place for you.
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When we pray, we bring G-d into the world
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Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.
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Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.
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Few are guilty, but all are responsible.
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However, we must not convert an inclination into an axiom that just as man’s perceptions cannot operate outside time and space, so his motivations cannot operate outside expediency;
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Speech has power. Words do not fade. What starts out as a sound, ends in a deed.
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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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